Question about Japanese Television

[anonymous920314]

I noticed in all the pictures I've seen of a Japanese Television, they're always displaying the time.

Can someone tell me why this is?

 

[QuietDragon]

I dunno, it's the same with some Arabic channels I watch. It's helpful, I guess? ^^; I don't think there's any specific reason for it.

 

[Zhen Lin]

It might be from the channel, it might be the TV itself.

 

[DalekMan]

*shrugs* Maybe people losing track of time is such a nasty problem there that the TV companies thought they could help by showing a clock in the corner?

 

[Archaic]

It's from the channel. It's not constant though. Usually only during morning programs, and some prime time news and variety shows.

 

[DalekMan]

Now that I think about it, that sort of thing would be helpful to people who want to set their VCRs to record something and need their VCR clocks to be in synch with the network's clock... I can still remember many times when not being synchronized left me without the first or last five minutes of a TV show or movie that I'd wanted badly to see.

 

[Archaic]

I'm given to understand that it's there so that people know when it's time to leave for the bus/train/subway, or so that family's can get an idea of how long it is until Dad is due home.

 

[Bartholomew Kuma]

Didn't they use to do this in the US and other countries as well? The concept never seemed strange to me, people just want to know the time.

 

[D-ryukei]

What Archaic said is right, I think.
I also, like many Jpanese people, look the time on a TV screen every weekday morning so that I check the time and don't miss the train to go to school.
The time on TV is often seen in morning/evening news programs, but not often in other kinds of programs such as TV shows.
For example, as Japanese pokemon TV programs, "pokemon diamond and pearl" in evening doesn't have the clock; "pokemon Sunday" in morning has it, at least in Kanto regeon. (of course in REAL Japanese regeon...)

Sorry for my poor English...

 

[Yamato-san]

本当なんだろうか、君は日本人？でも、なんでメッセージ数は１つだけ？もしかして、それ訓えるためにだけでここに入らなかった。